Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman — at 22, the youngest inaugural poet in United States history — awed the crowd on Inauguration Day with a poem that emphasized unity in a wounded America and urged the nation to march onwards toward a new era. Her poem, an original work entitled “The Hill We Climb,” joins the compositions of other poets who have presided over presidential inaugurations, including Robert Frost — at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration — and Maya Angelou — at the inauguration of Bill Clinton. Speaking with The New York Times, Gorman called the poem “probably one of the most important things I’ll ever do in my career,” and said that she was halfway through writing it when pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. “In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years,” Gorman told the Times. “But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal. It’s doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think America needs to reconcile with.” A partial transcription of Gorman’s poem reads: We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be. A country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free. We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation, because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation. Our blenders become their burdens, but one thing is certain. If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy, and change our children’s birthright. So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left with. Gorman, who hails from L.A. and was named the city’s Youth Poet Laureate at age 16 and the country’s first National Youth Poet Laureate three years later, had a speech impediment at a young age where she had difficulty pronouncing certain letters. She told NPR that helped fuel her love of poetry, since it gave her an “arena in which I could express my thoughts freely.” Watch her poem at our link in bio. // 📷 Getty」1月21日 5時31分